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[chill_wind]

:hug:

I wonder what the ratings share was for MSNBC tonight? I still vividly remember the run-up to the invasion. The network war-drum music that had seemingly been scored almost overnight and became suddenly loud, pompous, relentless, deafening. The normally robotic talking head deliveries of the days' headlines became overnight a million more times animated and breathless. And the first bombing displays in what they so arrogantly coined "shock and awe". CNN was delirious with that first weekend's ratings. The most watched television in the history of their network, they said.

War was extremely good for their advertising revenues, they admitted, as long as they didn't stir up or air too much of the gruesome reality of the war (that was making them and so many other corporations unprecedentedly rich.) Nice wholesome family friendly product advertisers didn't want product placement ties to any of that kind of negativity. I remember an early interview with one of CNN execs that said just that. I knew then that between the Pentagon Pundit propagandists and choices made by the embedded network news orgs that the corp ho media would never, ever help end this war by exposing the truth and reality of it.

Millions of Americans watched that first weekend of the invasion. I wonder, in comparison, how many watched tonight?
What a long shameful chapter in our history.